Plato (c. 428/427 or 424/423 – 348/347 BC)

Plato was a classical Greek philosopher from Athens. Plato founded the Academy, the first higher learning institution in the western world. Plato is considered the most pivotal figure of western philosophy. It is said all else is footnotes to Plato. Socrates lived from 470 - 399 BC. He didn't leave any writings. Plato's Dialogues are the most comprehensive accounts about Socrates. The Dialogues

• Charmides - Socrates returns from a battle at Potidaea. He soon engages in a dialogue with a young boy, Critias, about temperance, self-control, and restraint.
• Lysis
• Laches
• Protagoras
• Euthydemus
• Cratylus
• Phaedrus
• Ion
• Symposium
• Meno
• Euthyphro
• Apology - Plato's Apology is the Socratic dialogue that presents the speech of legal self-defence which Socrates presented at his trial for impiety and corruption in 399 BC. Pages 200-212.
• Crito
• Phaedo
• Gorgias
• The Republic
• Timaeus
• Critias
• Parmenides
• Theaetetus
• Sophist
• Statesman
• Philebus
• Laws

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